[Dovecot] Converting from MBOX to Maildir broke procmail and Spamassasin and halted incoming mail

[Scott Silva]

on 9-17-2008 11:39 AM Dan Roberts spake the following:
> I could use some help here -
> 
> As I use Dovecot I started here when trying to figure out why I could 
> not add new mail folders under my Mac's Mail program, but could under 
> Thunderbird.
> 
> It was quickly pointed out that my system was set up to use MBOX and not 
> MAILDIR, and some helpful links and notes were sent back and forth 
> giving me a good clue as to how to perform the conversion process.
> 
> I did have success in getting my mail accounts converted from mbox to 
> maildir, but then ran aground.
> 
> I could see all of my existing mail and create new folders, but I could 
> not see any of my incoming mail.
> 
> What I was late in realizing was that I needed to also adjust the 
> settings for my LDA, which as I am using sendmail is procmail, and it 
> was suggested that I needed to adjust /etc/procmail to include the line
> 
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
> 
> I did that, but new mail still didn't show up correctly.   I can only 
> assume that I have something still not properly adjusted in my procmail 
> settings.
> 
> Given that I got everything else to work, and even successfully upgraded 
> dovecot, it was very frustrating to set everything back to square one 
> with mbox so that I had a functioning system once again.   I am about to 
> have some time on my hands and am going to try again - but this time I 
> thought I would ask for help before I possibly loose my ability to 
> receive new mail - makes reading those suggestions very hard.
> 
> At present, my etc/procmailrc file is like this.
> -----------
> [dan at trailrunner etc]$ cat procmailrc
> # send mail through SpamAssassin
> :0 fw
> * < 256000
> | /usr/bin/spamc -f
> -----------
> 
> In each users Home directory I have a .procmailrc file that further 
> directs things on a user level.
> For my directory this file is currently
> ---------------
> [dan at trailrunner ~]$ cat .procmailrc
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> 
> PROBABLYJUNK = /home/dan/mail/probably-spam
> 
> :O H
> * ^X-Spam-Status:.*Yes
> {
> EXITCODE=67
> :0:
> probably-spam
> }
> ---------------
> 
> I admit that I set up Spamassasin some years ago and though I have 
> updated things now and then, I don't recall all of the reasoning behind 
> the setup - just know that it has been working.
> 
> Whether I put the new line "DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/" in one file, the 
> other or both - I got no incoming mail.  My guess was that I had 
> offended promail in one way or another.
> 
> So, as I prepare to do the MBOX to MAILDIR conversion once again, does 
> anyone have any guidance to offer for how to properly adjust the 
> procmail files so that I can continue to filter spam?
> 
> Much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers -
> dan
> 
How old is the distro on the system?
Older versions of procmail don't support maildir.


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